Art and Architecture in Italy 1600 to 1750
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RUDOLF WITTKOWER ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN ITALY 1600 TO 1750 PUBLISHED BY PENGUIN BOOKS CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES XI LIST OF PLATES X1U FOREWORD XXI Part One The Period of Transition and the Early Baroque circa 1600-circa 162$ 1. ROME: SIXTUS V TO PAUL V (1585-1621) I The Council of Trent and the Arts - The Church and the Reformers - The 'Style Sixtus V and its Transformation - Paul V and Cardinal Scipione Borghese as Patrons - Caravaggios and Annibale Carracci s Supporters - The new Churches and the new Iconography - The Evolution of the 'Genres' 2. CARAVAGGIO 21 3. THE CARRACCI 31 4. CARAVAGGIO'S FOLLOWERS AND THE CARRACCI SCHOOL IN ROME 42 The Caravaggisti - The Bolognese in Rome and Early Baroque Classicism 5. PAINTING OUTSIDE ROME 55 Bologna and Neighbouring Cities 56 Florence and Siena 59 Milan 61 Genoa 64 Venice 65 Conclusion 67 6. ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE 69 Architecture 69 Rome: Carlo Maderno (1556-1629) - Architecture outside Rome Sculpture 83 Rome - Sculpture outside Rome vii CONTENTS Part Two The Age of the High Baroque circa 1625-circa 167 s 7. INTRODUCTION 89 Seicento Devotion and Religious Imagery - Rhetoric and Baroque Procedure - Patronage 8. GIANLORENZO BERNINI 96 Introduction 96 Sculpture 97 Stylistic Development - Sculpture with One and Many Views - Colour and Light - The Transcending of Traditional Modes - New Iconographical Types - The Role of the 'Concetto' - Working Procedure Painting 112 Architecture 114 Ecclesiastical Buildings - Secular Buildings - The Piazza of St Peter's 9. FRANCESCO BORROMINI (1599-1667) I3O S. Carlo alle Quattro Fontane - S. Ivo della Sapienza - S. Giovanni in Laterano, S. Agnese, S. Andrea delle Fratte, and Minor Ecclesiastical Works - The Oratory of St Philip Neri - Domestic Buildings - The Collegio di Propaganda Fide 10. PIETRO DA CORTONA (1596-1669) I52 Introduction 152 Architecture ' 153 The Early Works - SS. Martina e Luca - S. Maria della Pace, S. Maria in Via Lata, Projects, and Minor Works Painting and Decoration 162 The Early Works - The Gran Salone of the Palazzo Barberini - The Frescoes of the Palazzo Pitti and the Late Work 11. 'HIGH BAROQUE CLASSICISM': SACCHI, ALGARDI, AND DUQUESNOY 169 Andrea Sacchi (1599-1661) 169 The Controversy between Sacchi and Cortona Alessandro Algardi (i 595-1654) 173 Francesco Duquesnoy (1594-1643) 177 12. ARCHITECTURAL CURRENTS OF THE HIGH BAROQUE l8l Rome 181 Carlo Rainaldi - Martino Longhi the Younger, Vincenzo della Greca, Antonio del Grande, and Giovan Antonio de' Rossi Architecture outside Rome 189 Baldassare Longhena - Florence and Naples: Silvani and Fanzago viii CONTENTS 13. TRENDS IN HIGH BAROQUE SCULPTURE 200 Rome 200 The First Generation - The Second Generation - Tombs with the Effigy in Prayer - Minor Masters of the later Seventeenth Century - Bernini's Studio and the Position of Sculptors in Rome Sculpture outside Rome 211 14. HIGH BAROQUE PAINTING AND ITS AFTERMATH 213 Rome 213 Baroque Classicism; Archaizing Classicism; Crypto-Romantkism - The Great Fresco Cycles - Carlo Maratti (1625-1713) Painting outside Rome 222 Bologna, Florence, Venice, and Lombardy - Genoa - Naples Part Three Ldte Baroque and Rococo circa 1675-circa 1750 15. INTRODUCTION 235 16. ARCHITECTURE 240 Introduction: Late Baroque Classicism and Rococo 240 Rome 244 Carlo Fontana (1634-1714) - The Eighteenth Century Northern Italy and Florence 252 Naples and Sicily 258 17. ARCHITECTURE IN PIEDMONT 267 The Prelude 267 Guarino Guarinl (1624-83) 268 Filippo Juvarra (1678-1736) 275 Bernardo Vittone (1704/5-70) 282 18. SCULPTURE 288 Rome 288 Typological Changes: Tombs and Allegories Sculpture outside Rome 296 ix CONTENTS 19. PAINTING 304 Introduction 304 Naples and Rome 305 Florence and Bologna 309 Northern Italy outside Venice 312 Venice 314 Sebastiano Ricd and Piazzetta - Pellegrini, Amigoni, Pittoni, Balestra - Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770) The Genres 321 ' Portraiture - The Popular and Bourgeois Genre - Landscape, Vedute, Ruins d> LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS 331 NOTES 333 BIBLIOGRAPHY 389 The Plates INDEX ' 411 X.